cicatrix

[ sik-uh-triks, si-key-triks ]
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noun,plural cic·a·tri·ces [sik-uh-trahy-seez]. /ˌsɪk əˈtraɪ siz/.
  1. Physiology. new tissue that forms over a wound and later contracts into a scar.

  2. Botany. a scar left by a fallen leaf, seed, etc.

Origin of cicatrix

1
1350–1400; Middle English <Latin: scar
  • Also cic·a·trice [sik-uh-tris]. /ˈsɪk ə trɪs/.

Other words from cicatrix

  • cic·a·tri·cial [sik-uh-trish-uhl], /ˌsɪk əˈtrɪʃ əl/, adjective
  • ci·cat·ri·cose [si-ka-tri-kohs, sik-uh-], /sɪˈkæ trɪˌkoʊs, ˈsɪk ə-/, adjective

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How to use cicatrix in a sentence

  • She lived to be eighty-five, and to the day of her death caressed the scar—the cicatrice of a love-wound.

  • And he laid bare a fearful cicatrice that almost surrounded his right arm above the wrist.

    A Rent In A Cloud | Charles James Lever
  • The fall of pitiful tears, tears from the sweet blue of her guileless eyes, came hissing against the red-hot cicatrice.

    Love's Usuries | Louis Creswicke
  • There was the cicatrice of an old wound on a lower limb, but otherwise there was no spot or blemish upon the body.

  • Each of these matrixes contains a small drop of this prolific liquor of the female, in the part that is called the cicatrice.

    Buffon's Natural History, Volume III (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

British Dictionary definitions for cicatrix

cicatrix

/ (ˈsɪkətrɪks) /


nounplural cicatrices (ˌsɪkəˈtraɪsiːz)
  1. the tissue that forms in a wound during healing; scar

  2. a scar on a plant indicating the former point of attachment of a part, esp a leaf

Origin of cicatrix

1
C17: from Latin: scar, of obscure origin

Derived forms of cicatrix

  • cicatricial (ˌsɪkəˈtrɪʃəl), adjective
  • cicatricose (sɪˈkætrɪˌkəʊs, ˈsɪkə-), adjective

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